How the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race became the biggest of its kind in New England

How the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race became the biggest of its kind in New England

This story was originally published in April 2022. This year’s race begins at 10 a.m. Saturday. The first running of the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race came about because two friends thought it might be a fun idea to race canoes and kayaks in the spring of 1967. Little did founders Sonny Colburn and Lew Gilman know that more than 50 years later, the race would still be going strong. After years of high water and low, through sunny days and freak s…